Ethics & Bioethics

Statement by the Swedish Research Institute of Defence at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce 2012 03 21

The art of creating machines with ethical behaviour is something that robot scientists and philosophers have started to study.

What part has man to play in a future, in which ethical decisions will be taken also by machines?

When will a machine become a human being?

The question of borderlines between man and More >

University of Oxford:Practical Ethics: Non-lethal, yet dangerous: neuroactive agents

University of Oxford

An article and editorial in Nature warns about the militarization of agents that alter mental states. While traditional chemical weapons are intended to hurt or kill people, these agents are intended to disable. For example, they might induce confusion, sleepiness or calm. The Chemical Weapons Convention contain a More >

Robots Get Closer to Humans-2005 IEEE International Conference

Ethical issues involved in hybrid bionicsystems research

2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

“What kind of privacy safeguards are needed if a machine can read your thoughts”?

“Invasive research on humans could involve inhuman or degrading procedures” “Invasive research on humans could lead to new torture or inhumane punishment techniques”

Will More >

Bioelectronics and Implanted Devices

Chapter 12

Bioelectronics and Implanted Devices

Ellen M. McGee

12.1 IntroductionThe future may well involve the emergence of humans who are fundamentally coupled with bioelectronic devices, science fiction’s “cyborgs.” Revolutions in semiconductor devices, cognitive science, bioelectronics, nanotechnology and applied neural control technologies are facilitating breakthroughs in hybrids of humans and machines. The More >

Nanotechnology: Shaping Our Future. “Biotechnology’s opportunities and problems”, Editors: Ulf Gorman, Carl-Gustaf Andrén and Goran Hermerén

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Bengt Kasemo

History, motivations, trends, opportunities and problems

Introduction

Many scientists believe that within the next 20 years will experience rapid and sensitive community development in three mutually interacting areas: The first, which is based on silicon technology, information technology.

It has already had an impact on our daily More >

Uppsala University, research in bioethics

Uppsala University, research in bioethics

Bioethics deals with norms and value conflicts in health care and life science research. Issues covered are such priorities in health care, informed consent, neurobiological explanations of human consciousness, animal welfare and the use of biotechnology. The subject deals with philosophical, theological, legal and social More >

EU – Commission Ethical Aspects of ICT Implants in the Human Body

The following text is an extract from the

European Group on Ethics and New Technologies with the Swedish Professor Goran Hermerén as chairman, adopted and delivered to the EU-Commission 16th of  March 2005.

Introduction

Brain-computer interface (BCI) or direct brain control: the technologies involved above are communication technologies: they take information from the brain and More >